Beating My Past-Self at This Secret Country Game – Learning Project Week 4

This week, I combined my knowledge of country names and locations to practise in a super fun way. Instead of simply taking quizzes, I got to play a game! The game is called Globle. There is a secret country and you have to guess it. You enter the name of a country and the colour it lights up will show you how close or far it is the the actual secret country. For example, if their secret country is Spain and you guess Russia, Russia will light up on the map a white-ish colour. If you guess France, France will light up on the globe dark red. So, you can see why it helps to have a good knowledge of countries names and places!

Here’s what a game looks like:

I guessed

• Ukraine
• Italy
• Algeria
• Germany
• Albania (was adjacent to the correct answer, so I guess Bosnia, because I thought they bordered each other)
• Bosnia
• North Macedonia (Here, I thought of what else actually borders Albania)
• Greece!

I remember playing his game last summer with my friend, when I had far less understanding of the world map. I was so naive, I really thought that my little knowledge was impressive, LOL!. I would absolutely crush my past self in a game of Globle. 

Likes and Dislikes

There aren’t very many dislikes this week –shocking, I know. Its a very fun game that is only enhanced by my learning of the world map. This game is definitely more fun when are not stuck on Oceania because you don’t know the names of the islands (happened to me last summer). This game really will choose any country as its secret country. It’s NOT only restricted to the countries that ARE ACTUALLY VISIBLE ON A MAP. 

Did it help me learn?

Yes, it did. I had to recall my knowledge of which countries were adjacent to each other. Although it is a fun game, I was still testing and expanding upon my knowledge. It wasn’t just a little vacation week for me. 

Would I recommend it to others?

Yes, I would definitely recommend this game to others. It was the perfect third resource to add into my goal of learning the whole world map. Although it would be better to do what I did and set out to learn the names and locations first, I can see someone being able to learn a significant amount from this game alone. It got really fun as I got better at the game, as I got the secret country correct in fewer and fewer guess. This is because I started to become aware of which countries border each other. It’s one thing to know generally where they are, but it’s another to keep track of which countries actually share a border. Your guesses would only show up that super dark red colour if it was actually touching the secret country. 

My rating out of 5 for this game: 4.5 stars

I wonder, would you ever try this game? If so, how do you think you would do?

I found this game from word of mouth, have you heard of it before?